Re: [tcpdump] Sanity check on major/minor libpcap version

[Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail () orange fr>]

On 08/10/2015 22:05, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
>      > We might also want to, if major == PCAP_VERSION_MAJOR, make sure minor
>      > <= PCAP_VERSION_MINOR, just in case somebody does a pcap 2.5 that code
>      > that only knows up to version 2.4 can't handle.
>
> I thought that we'd have to call that 3.0...
>
> In my mind, a minor version mismatch (even one newer) might result in some
> bits being ignored (for instance, a TBD very very high precision timestamp data
> might be lost), but shouldn't result in any mis-handling.

If we have part of the the test as
(major == PCAP_VERSION_MAJOR && minor <= PCAP_VERSION_MINOR),
We shall know that a new version appeared somewhere and we can act 
accordingly ...
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